Male infertility
To view the entire topic, please log in or purchase a subscription.
Medicine Central™ is a quick-consult mobile and web resource that includes diagnosis, treatment, medications, and follow-up information on over 700 diseases and disorders, providing fast answers—anytime, anywhere. Explore these free sample topics:
-- The first section of this topic is shown below --
DDx
- Female infertility
- Erectile dysfunction
- Hypogonadism (deficient testosterone from primary or secondary testicular failure)
- Spermicidal lubricants
- Cryptorchism
- Epididymitis
- Retrograde ejaculation, eg, diabetic neuropathy
- Varicocele
- Ejaculatory duct obstruction
- Vas deferens obstruction
- Absent seminal emission from sympathetic nerve injury, eg, pelvic or retroperitoneal surgery
- Hernia repair damaging vas deferens or testicular blood supply
- Drugs: sulfasalazine, nitrofurantoin affect sperm motility (see also drugs in Hypogonadism)
-- To view the remaining sections of this topic, please log in or purchase a subscription --
DDx
- Female infertility
- Erectile dysfunction
- Hypogonadism (deficient testosterone from primary or secondary testicular failure)
- Spermicidal lubricants
- Cryptorchism
- Epididymitis
- Retrograde ejaculation, eg, diabetic neuropathy
- Varicocele
- Ejaculatory duct obstruction
- Vas deferens obstruction
- Absent seminal emission from sympathetic nerve injury, eg, pelvic or retroperitoneal surgery
- Hernia repair damaging vas deferens or testicular blood supply
- Drugs: sulfasalazine, nitrofurantoin affect sperm motility (see also drugs in Hypogonadism)
There's more to see -- the rest of this entry is available only to subscribers.